MISSION F I E L D

W H Y YO U S H O U L D G O TO T H E M I S S I O N F I E L D
Keith Greens Final Message
An Introduction By Melody Green

I want to encourage you to read the following article by Keith with an open heart. It was
completed only a few days before Keith and two of our children, Josiah and Bethany,
went home to be with Jesus in a fatal plane crash. The following message was a real
expression of the fresh burden the Lord had put on his heart. As Keith explains, this is so
much more than just another article. It was something that the Lord had put burning in
Keiths heart and was to be his new emphasis of message to Christians especially those
Christians in America.

I know that most of you are aware of the fact that Keiths message almost from the start of
his ministry, was get right with God! He wasnt very shy about preaching it, and I know
that because of his boldness, many hearts opened up to the Holy Spirits conviction and
the reality of God. Keith so wanted to see every Christian totally sold out to the Lord not
lukewarm or halfhearted but as he put it in one of his last concerts, bananas for Jesus!

I believe the vision for missions is a completion of Keiths message for Christians to really
be right with God. The question is this once you are right...then what? do you just sit
around in your rightness, or do you seek Gods direction to see how and where you can
be used most effectively for the Kingdom of God? What the world is dying for is hundreds
and thousands of believers who are determined to see the lost find out who their Creator
is before they stand before Him on that great and awesome day.

I know it would be Keiths greatest desire (aside from the salvation of the lost) for you to
take this matter seriously before the throne of God. If you will lay all your personal goals at
the foot of the cross, and ask Jesus what He wants you to do with your life, then I know
Keiths burden from the Lord will be born in the hearts of many of you and carried to the
ends of the earth! Melody

PA RT I : T H E C A L L O F T H E LO R D
A Biblical Look At The Missions Call

I recently returned from visiting some overseas missionary bases, and I must say that since
returning, my life has not been quite the same. The vision and goals of our ministry have
suddenly changed. The Lord definitely did something to my heart on that trip. Besides
showing me how small my vision had been, He began to give me a great burden to see the
ranks of His army in the field swell!

One of the greatest things God opened my eyes to was how tremendously evangelized my
own country was, while the rest of the world was barely being reached. As I traveled from
country to country, I thought of the millions of people I was passing through who needed
to have the Gospel of Jesus shown to them in a real way and yet there was hardly anyone
there to reach them.

As I visited each mission base, I spoke with different missionaries, and picked up various
pieces of literature that told the story of what was being done in different parts of the world
to expand the Kingdom of God. As I read the statistics, I was shocked I really had never
known how little the need was being met!

When I returned home, I got hold of some of the leaders of different missionary
organizations and set up some meetings to find out more about what was being done to fill
the need. After these meetings, I decided to do a study of Gods Word (to see what He had
to say about reaching the lost in other countries), and I also read through some more of the
missions literature I had been given.

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 This article is the result of that study, and also a burning desire in my heart to see 100,000
young people released to the mission field over the next five years!

So... why should you go to the mission field?

1) Because Jesus has told you to go.

Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to all creation. (Mark 16:15)1
With these words, Jesus made it clear exactly what His disciples were to do they were to
spread His teachings in His name, preaching salvation unto the ends of the earth. (Rom.
10:18) If you consider yourself a believer, then you must consider yourself a disciple of
Jesus no less called and chosen than the very first 12 apostles. There are no such things
as 1st class Christians and 2nd class Christians every believer is called to spread the
Good News about Jesus to those who have not yet heard. Jesus command is definite and
clear it is His great mandate, His Great Commission to the soldiers in His holy army.
We must go, because our great General has commanded us to go.

2) You should go because the need is so great.

The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore, beseech the Lord of the
harvest to send out workers into His harvest. (Matt. 9:3738)
Ever since Jesus first spoke these compassionate words, the supply of workers in the fields
of soulharvest has always been horribly low. But today the need is the greatest it has ever
been in the history of mankind. Remember, Hell is not just for the weekend! More people
are alive today, and more souls are at stake, than the total number of people who have
ever lived on the face of the earth in all of human history! This simply means that we can
populate either Heaven or Hell by our obedience or our laziness. There are over
2,700,000,000 people who have never heard the Gospel at all, and there are only 5,000
to 7,000 missionaries worldwide, working directly with these totally unreached groups of
people.1 That means there is approximately one missionary for every 450,000 of these
people! There are over 16,000 different and distinct cultures and peoplegroups even
whole countries, where not one single church is in existence. 2There are 7,010 distinct living
languages, and 5,199 of them still have no Bible or Scripture translations available
in their own language!3 Do these figures move you at all? Does it matter to you that
an estimated 80,000 unsaved people die every day (approximately 3,333 every hour...
55 people every single minute!) to face the judgment seat of Christ?4

3) You should go because so few Christians are obeying the call, making the need even
greater! Faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the Word of Christ...how shall they
hear without a preacher? (Rom. 10:17,14)
Right now worldwide there are only 85,000 workers on the mission field working mainly
among those who have heard the gospel before.5 This figure includes missionaries from all
over the world of every nationality. When you compare this number with the amount of
Americans selling Avon or Amway products, it is staggering. Just in America alone there are
435,000 Avon salespeople6 (with 1,280,000 worldwide), and over 750,000 Amway products
distributors,7 (with over a million worldwide)! Do you realize that these two companies
combined have 14 times more representatives in the United States alone than the Church
of Jesus Christ has in the whole world outside of America?

And what about the Christian representatives we do have in the world? Only 9% of the
worlds population speaks English, and yet 94% of all ordained preachers in the whole
world minister to the 9% who speak English. And 96% of all Christian finances are spent in
the United States on 6% of the worlds population. Only 4% of all Christian money is spent
on missionary efforts to reach the other 94% of the worlds population! There are over
1,000,000 fulltime Christian workers in the United States; while one half of the worlds
population (3 major groups Moslem, Hindu, and Chinese), 2,200,000,000 people, have
only 2,417 fulltime Christian workers 8 As you can see by these figures, something is
definitely wrong. While we in America have approximately one worker for every 230 people
those who have never heard the Gospel even once have one worker for every 450,000
souls! Please forgive us, Jesus, for being too timid to obey You and reach out into all the
world like You have commanded us to!
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 4) You should go because God gives special anointing and grace to those who leave their
own land, people, and culture to do Gods will and spread the Gospel.
And the Lord said to Abram, Go forth from your country and from your relatives, and
from your fathers house...and I will bless you and make your name great; and so you
shall also be a blessing; and I will bless those that bless you, and the one who curses you
I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. (Genesis 12:13)
Abram ( later to be renamed Abraham by God ) is only one of the many people in the Bible
who God used mightily only after he left his own people, his own land, and his own culture.
Look at the travels and ministries of people like Jacob and Moses both of whom had to
go into other lands to learn from God and be used by Him.

No matter where you look in the Bible, God always gave a great anointing a and blessing
to those who served Him in a foreign land. Look at Joseph and Daniel. They were the only
two men in the Bible who God raised up as successful, secular officials in foreign and
heathen cultures and they remained faithful witnesses and servants of God to the very
end, and often at the risk of their very lives!

What about Jonah? He was a good example of someone who didnt want to go to the
mission field and preach to heathens! Stubborn, rebellious, and selfish and yet God
made him an offer he couldnt refuse. ( I pray that God would freely move like that in all
our lives, helping us to make the right decisions about going.)

And then theres the apostle Paul who had such a burden for his own people and country,
Israel. Oh , how he would have loved a ministry among the Jews! But what did God say?
Go! For I will send you far away to the Gentiles. (Acts 22:21) Thats what God
commanded, and go he did. Never was there a missionary like Paul. Take a look at II
Corinthians 11 if youd like to see a list of his qualifications: beatings, imprisonments,
stonings, mobs, shipwrecks, the list goes on and on and so did Paul, obeying his Master
who bought him.

From Noah to Abraham, from Moses to Jonah, from Daniel to Paul, God has always given
special blessing to those who, leaving the comforts of home and relatives, cross the
boundaries of their little worlds to bring Gods message and blessing to the nations.

Remember Jesus words about this subject, A prophet is not without honor except in his
home town, (Matt. 13:57)

5) You should go because America (and some other western nations) is literally
drenched with the Gospel, while most other countries and cultures of the world do not
have any continual, relevant witness a all.
And thus I aspired to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was already named, that I
might not build upon another mans foundation; but as it is written, They that had no
news of Him shall see, and they who have not heard shall understand. (Rom. 15:2021)
It is so true that we here in America are continually bombarded with Christian witness and
ministry. Almost at every turn theres a billboard or a bumper sticker proclaiming something
about Jesus. Turn the dial on your radio at any time of the day or night, and youve got
nonstop preaching. There are several Christian satellite and cable networks. And there are
over 250 different Christian magazines and publications. In most cities theres a church on
almost every corner. I am not trying to say that this is all bad a lot of it is good, winning
many souls to Jesus but as Ive traveled overseas, it is hard for me to believe that it is
Gods will for there to be so much Gospel preaching and literature available here, while
there is comparatively little or even none in many places outside of this country.

The world is going to Hell on every continent! Is it Gods fault that so few are hearing the
gospel or is it the Churchs? Arent we who love Jesus accountable to reach our generation
with the gospel? A friend of mine has written, this generation of Christians is responsible for
this generation of sinners. If this is true, then each of us must take a good, long look at our
lives and priorities finding out where God would have us begin to get ready to go!
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 6) You should go because, as Oswald J. Smith said, No one has the right to hear the
Gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.
But if our Gospel be hidden, it is hidden to them that are lost: in whom the god of
this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, that they might not see
the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. (II Cor. 4:34)
Has it occurred to you that Jesus wants every creature to hear the Gospel? If you had 20
children to feed and plenty of food to feed them all with, do you think it would be right to
give 3 of the children 10 meals, 7 children only 1 meal, and the remaining nothing causing
them to die of starvation? Thats exactly what were doing with the Gospel in the world today!

Because we believers are so deaf to Gods call to go into all nations, we keep most of
Gods resources to ourselves! We keep feeding and reaching the same people over and
over again. I am not saying there should be no Gospel preached in America, I am saying
that there needs to be a spreading out of the soldiers of God, to fight the enemy where his
greatest strongholds are where Christ is not already named!

7) You should go because the time is short. More and more countries are closing their
doors to missionaries and the Gospel, and we must go now.
We must work the works of Him who sent me, as long as it is day; night is coming,
when no man can work. (John 9:4)
I constantly hear of country after country where missionaries used to be welcome, but now
the doors are closed to them entering. Though it is true that many Christians can still go to
be subtle witnesses as doctors, teachers, engineers, etc., the Gospel can no longer be
openly preached in many lands.

Although there are still vast areas of the world wide open for foreign evangelism, such as
western Europe, parts of Asia, and most of the Pacific (Japan, South Korea, Singapore, etc.)
there are many other countries where it is illegal to hold a street meeting or pass out
Gospel literature. We need to sense the urgency of this hour, and obey God by reaching
out to those lost in the darkness while it is still day.

8) You should go because the Holy Spirit is speaking to Christian leadership all over
the world that it is Gods desire for there to be a great final missionary thrust with the
Gospel before the end of the age. It is His desire that every people should have the
Gospel preached to them, and that the Gospel should be published in every nation
and in every language. And unless YOU get involved personally, there is no hope of
that ever happening in our generation!
...And you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and
even to the remotest part of the earth. (Acts 1:8) And this gospel of the Kingdom
shall be preached in the whole world for a witness to all the nations, and then the end
shall come. ( Matt. 24:14) The Lord is...patient toward you, not wishing for you to
perish but for all to come to repentance. ( II Peter 3:9)
Is there any doubt in your mind that God wants everyone to be saved? If you believe this,
and you really love Jesus, then WHY are you so timid about getting involved in this great
thrust to bring the Gospel to all the nations? Do you think that while youre reading this,
God isnt grieved that His Church is being so lazy and disobedient about fulfilling his
commission? He knows that you agree with the Scriptures, and Hes listening to every
excuse youre turning over in your mind like, Yes, I know that more people need to go...
but He just couldnt mean ME! Im...just not the missionarytype...

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 In Part 2 of Why YOU Should Go To The Mission Field,
we will see what type of Christian you really are...

PA RT I I : T H E M O ST CO M M O N LY H E A R D E XC U S E S
The following objections are just a few of the many that Christian groups and missionary
societies constantly hear from prospective recruits for the mission field. Although many
may merely be excuses, we have heard them spoken so many times as serious statements
from wellmeaning Christians in response to the question, Why dont you get trained to
go into full time Christian service in a foreign country?

1) But Im not called.

You dont know how many people Ive met who have said to me Keith, I agree that more
people need to go to the mission field, but Ive never heard God tell me to go.

Well, the truth is that God has already told you to go in His Word. In fact, He commands
you to go... Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature.
(Mark 16:15) Thats right... YOU ARE CALLED!

In fact, if you dont go, you need a specific calling from God to stay home. Has God
definitely told you not to go somewhere outside your country to preach the Gospel? If
He hasnt, then youd better start praying WHERE to go, instead of IF you should go for
again, youre already called!

2) But God needs people to stay here to be a witness to those lost in America.
Theres enough need right here!
It is true that God has called some people to stay right where they are to be witnesses for
Jesus in their daily lives and professions. But again, God is merciful and just. Since America
has only about 5% of the worlds population, then only about 5% of the believers would
really be called to stay in this country as a witness ( thats only about 1 out of 20) while the
rest of us should go into the parts of the world where there are almost 0% believers.
(In Albania, for instance, there are only a handful of known believers in the whole country
of 2.7 million people less than 1/2 of 1/1000th percent!!)9

3) But God needs people to stay home and financially support those ministries and
missionaries who are already all over the world. In fact, my church is already
supporting some missionaries with my tithes and offerings.
You should never have to worry about there not being enough Christians staying home to
support missionaries! There will always be enough people around who will not answer the
call to go who will stay home and gladly just send a check (instead of themselves) to
reach to lost. After all, nothing is easier to give than money (except nothing!).

This does not mean that everyone who stays home is selfish and disobedient. As Ive
already said, there are some who know they are definitely called to stay, and they are doing
exactly what God would have them do here, while they greatly support other ministries.
Im just saying that there will always be plenty of people around to financially support the
pitifully few who answer the call and obey God.

4) But my family and friends would frown upon me going.

He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me... (Matt. 10:37)
God is very clear about whose approval we should seek. Its shocking to me how even
Christian parents react when their children say that theyd like to go for training as a
fulltime Christian worker. A missionary! Are you crazy?! Its as if theyve announced
theyd like to be a thief or a prostitute.

It is true that God wants us to honor our parents and love our friends, but He has also made it
clear in His Word that this honor and love must not exceed our love and obedience to Him and
His calling on our lives. We should always try our best to explain Gods call to our families,
lovingly and patiently, but the bottom line must be that we will obey Christ no matter what the
cost. We should always try to get our familys understanding and blessing when God makes our
5 ministry clear to us, but we must also always be ready to leave houses or brothers or sisters or
father or mother or children or farms for His sake and for the Gospels sake. (Mark 10:29)
 5) But I need to stay here and lead my relatives to the Lord first. If I go somewhere
else, how can they get saved?
There was once a man who wanted to follow and obey Jesus, but he said to Him, Lord,
permit me first to go and bury my father. Jesus answer to him was, Follow me; and allow
the dead to bury their own dead. (Matt. 8:2122)

This may sound cruel of Jesus not to allow the man to have a funeral for his dead father
but most likely, the mans father had not died yet. The phrase wait until I bury my father
was sometimes used to say wait until my father has died. What he was really saying was,
Id like to follow You now, but You see, my parents wouldnt understand. Please wait until
after theyve died, and then Ill be more than glad to follow You!

Jesus answer was appropriate... allow the dead to bury their own dead. In other words,
allow the unbelievers to take care of themselves, and follow Me! Jesus doesnt want us to
throw our usefulness away because our relatives are not yet saved. The greatest witness
they can see is you fully obeying the call of God on your life. Jesus didnt want this mans
father to be buried He wanted the young man to follow Him, and then maybe even the
mans father would come to know Him too. Obedience is truly greater than sacrifice (I
Samuel 15:22) when we obey God, He takes care of all our other obligations. (Matt. 6:33)

6) But I need to get an education first.

I dont believe that God wants every Christian to go to college just because, Well,
everyone goes to college now, unless theyre too dumb! You shouldnt go to college
unless God has definitely called you to go. Just like everything else in our Christian lives,
Hes the Master, were the servants. Hes the General, were the soldiers. If youre really a
Christian, youre at the beck and command of the King. If youre not at His command, then
youre really not a Christian.

Yes, God does call some people to go to college. Sometimes its to get training for a
ministry calling Hes made clear to them. For instance, if you know what country youre
called to, perhaps God would lead you to learn the language and culture somewhat before
you go (although the very best place to learn is within the country itself its a definite
crash course!)

Of course, another reason God might lead you to college is to minister to people right
there on the campus as well as to mature emotionally and spiritually. But be careful! Make
sure youre there in direct obedience to God, or else youre wasting your time and His.

7) But I need to get married first, and then maybe my mate will want to serve God
fulltime on the field, rather than me going alone.
Nothing could be a more foolish reason for putting off obeying God now. God does not
want you to look for a husband or wife, He wants you to be married to Him, and trust
Him for any mate He may bring into your life. I know of many single Christians serving
Jesus overseas who are trusting Him for everything. And some of the most beautiful stories
of Gods grace Ive ever heard are told by couples who went to the mission field single,
and then God led them to marry another whose heart was also fully devoted to serving
Him there. Remember, Your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.
(Matt. 6:8) Trust Him!

8) But I have a family to support. God doesnt want me to neglect them, does He?
The Word of God says, Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things
shall be added to you. (Matt.6:33) If you can trust God for your needs, you can certainly
trust Him for your familys needs. You would never be foolishly neglecting your familys
needs by obeying Gods call to go. God will show you the way. I know of so many families
some with many children who are on the field right now, trusting God for their needs
while they minister in His name. I have never heard of ONE occurrence where God didnt
meet the needs of one of His servants and their families. As King David said...
I have been young, and now I am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, or his
descendants begging bread. All day long he is gracious and lends; and his descendants are
a blessing. (Psalm 37:2526)
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 9) But the mission field is dangerous. God would not have me put myself or my family
in danger of disease or native hostilities, would he?
Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our
little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?
(Numbers 14:3)
It is all a matter of our priorities do we look at the temporary or the eternal in making our
choices? Its true that you will probably be in more physical danger on the mission field
than you would be in the suburbs of America, but that is part of the cost that we need to
count when it comes to serving God. The question should not be, Will I be kept safe
wherever I go? but rather, What is on the Lords heart for me to do?

If Jesus decided to go the way of least pain, He would have never gone to the cross. There
is no place of greater blessing for you than in the center of Gods will. You must stop to
count the cost, but remember one thing the privilege of serving God always outweighs
the price! If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross,
and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for
My sake and the Gospels shall save it. (Mark 8:3435)

10) Although in the past most countries freely allowed foreign missionaries to come,
most people in other lands now resent them. Why should I go where Im not welcomed?
Did you welcome the Gospel before you were saved? The Word says that we should save
some, snatching them out of the fire, (Jude 23) Some people just dont want to be saved!
Thats exactly why we need to go to them. The more unwelcome, the better. If they resent
Americans, then you have an opportunity to show them that Christian Americans can be
humble with the love of Jesus in their hearts. For the Word says, He who is wise wins
souls. (Proverbs 11;30)

11) But I could not afford to get the training, and raise the necessary finances to
place myself (or my family) on the field.
Dont worry, Godll help raise the money you need. Wherever God guides, He supplies
even if it means helping you get a job! Problems and worries about finances are usually
only a surface excuse when it comes to obeying God to go. In your heart you know Hell
make a way for you!

12) But I dont have any special talents or abilities that would qualify me to be
a missionary.
Then youre just the person God is looking for! Sure God can use nurses, teachers,
accountants, and mechanics on the field, but it always blesses God to greatly use the one
who seemingly has nothing to offer. It is this person who has the opportunity of purely
representing Jesus in the endless common tasks that are part of the daily life of a
missionary. When I am weak, then I am strong. (II Cor. 12:10; also see I Cor. 1:2631)

13) But how could I commit myself for years and years to go to the field without
having a chance to see what it would be like?
It is true that in past generations a foreign missionary had to make almost a lifetime
commitment before he could go to the field. Then in most cases, he had to go to college
for at least four years, and then seminary for two to four years before he could even
begin his missions training and service. But today there are missionary organizations that
have shortterm programs for people who want to receive training and find out what
serving God in other countries is like. These programs last from a few weeks to a few
years in length. So now there is an opportunity to take a look before making a much
longer commitment.

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 14) But God wants me to stay in this country and prosper. The reason the rest of the
world is so poor and unconverted is because their heathen religions and idolatry have
caused them to live in ignorance and poverty, without Gods blessing.
This has to be THE most selfish reasoning Ive ever heard for not going and Ive heard it!
Of course they live in ignorance and poverty, thats just the reason you should go to bring
the enlightenment that comes from knowing the truth about Jesus, and to bring them the
true riches of knowing Christ. If you dont believe that the reason God has blessed you with
abundance in this country is so you can be a blessing to others then you have never
understood the Gospel of Jesus Christ! Freely you received, freely give. (Matt. 10:8)

15) Im just not ready to make that kind of a sacrifice and commitment.
Ah! Thats just the point. Thats probably the underlying reason for almost every one of the
above objections. In fact, you might just as well have said, Im not willing. You need to
decide whether or not you are a disciple of Jesus that is the question. If you are His
disciple, then you are not your own...you have been bought with a price. (I Cor. 6:1920)
And if you truly love Him, then you will not feel bondage, you will feel incredible
excitement at being chosen to represent Him in the world! To be a servant of Jesus Christ,
an ambassador, a missionary, is the highest calling a man or woman can attain to!

Now what are you waiting for??

What Is A Missionary?

A Christian missionary is a person whose passion is to make the Lord Jesus known to the
whole world. They are completely under the command of King Jesus, and they will go
anywhere, under any circumstances, for no pay, with poor living conditions and food, even
though no one ever notices. They know that their Sovereign is watching every minute, and
that is the only reward and joy they seek.

We see in the Bible that all Christians should continually be seeking every opportunity to
lead the unsaved to Christ no matter where they are, for this is the privilege of every
believer. But I believe that too many people use the word missionary too lightly its a
term that has become misused in our everyday Christian vocabulary. Too many justify
their not obeying the call of the Lord to go to the front lines of the battlefield, by saying
they are missionaries where they are. I believe that being a missionary in the truest
sense of the word is taking the Gospel where it has never been before, or at least to a
different culture or a different language group. A true missionary is someone who will risk
everything for the sake of the lost of this world.

Of course, as in every battle, not everyone can be on the front lines, for there are many
things that are needed to aid those who are. But you must be clearly called by the Lord to
stay away from those front lines before you can be assured that you are in the will of God.
It is obviously true that many Christians are called to reach out to the lost in the ghettos,
red light districts, and homosexual communities in their own areas. And there are always
those faithful wives and mothers who diligently let Christ be known to their doctors,
plumbers, and P.T.A. groups. These things bless Gods heart, theres no doubt about it.
Someone who loves Jesus should always be ministering His love no matter where they are.
But every Christian should always be willing, ready, and oncall to leave everything at the
command of their General, and go to a different battlefield to war against the king of
darkness, bringing healing and light to free the captives.

The goal of a true missionary is to please and glorify their God by delivering the whole
world into His hands and under His rule. It doesnt matter where they are stationed, for they
are always at home in their Fathers arms, no matter what the landscape or the language
may be. They are only aliens and strangers (I Peter2:11), and they are not concerned with
trivial things like location or comfort. They are Gods soldiers, perhaps hidden to our eyes,
but always evident to His. Please, seek Him to see if you might be privileged to take the
Gospel to those who have never heard it.

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 W H AT S H A L L I D O ?

Be Available Abandon yourself to God and to His call on your life. Tell Him you will go
anywhere and do anything that He shows you as His will for you.

Be Informed Dont hide behind ignorance. Gather all the information you can so you
can pray and seek the Lord intelligently. Subscribe to missions publications and make
it a priority to know whats going on in the world. If you know where the needs are,
it will be easier for you to meet some of them.

Be Inspired Checkout our booklist and get hold of some inspiring biographies of
Christian missionaries. Youll find out that most missionary greats are just common
people who decided to let their love for God and their love for the lost overrule their
own desires in life allowing God to use them in bold and wonderful ways.

Expect An Open Door Expect God to give you an opportunity to fully serve Him
through this new information you are exposing yourself to. Then when He opens the
door walk through it!

Appendix
1) Once Around Jericho by Roberta Winter; William Carey Library Publishing.
2) Ibid.
3) World Christian Encyclopedia by David Barrett.
4) In the Gap, What It Means To Be A World Christian by Dave Bryant; pg. 121.
5) U.S. Center for World Mission (USCWM), Pasadena, CA.
6) Avon Annual Report 1981.
7) Amway Corporate Compendium 1982.
8) USCWM, Pasadena Ca.
9) Operation World by P.J. Johnstone; STL Publications, 1980; pg. 91